To Judge Babylon

Jer 50:1 The word that יהוה spoke concerning Baḇel, concerning the land of the Chaldeans by Yirmeyahu the prophet.

Jer 50:2 "Declare among the nations, and let it be heard. And lift up a banner, let it be heard, and do not conceal it. Say, ‘Baḇel shall be taken, Bĕl shall be put to shame, Meroḏaḵ shall be broken, her images shall be put to shame, her idols shall be broken.’

Jer 50:3 For a nation shall come up against her from the north, which shall make her land waste, and none shall dwell in it. They shall flee, they shall go, both man and beast.

Jer 50:4 "In those days and at that time," declares יהוה, "the children of Yisra’ĕl shall come, they and the children of Yehuḏah together, weeping as they come, and seek יהוה their Elohim.

Jer 50:5 "They shall ask the way to Tsiyon, their faces toward it, ‘Come and let us join ourselves to יהוה, in an everlasting covenant, never to be forgotten.’

Jer 50:6 "My people have been wandering1 sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place. (1Or lost, or straying, or perishing. )

Jer 50:7 "All who found them have devoured them. And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against יהוה, the Home of righteousness, and the Expectation of their fathers: יהוה.’

Jer 50:8 "Flee from the midst of Baḇel, come out1 of the land of the Chaldeans. And be as rams before a flock. (1Rev. 18:4)

Jer 50:9 "For look, I am stirring up and bringing up against Baḇel an assembly of great nations from a land of the north, and they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be captured – their arrows are like those of a mighty skilled man, not returning empty-handed.